JMW Turner

The EY Exhibition: Late Turner – Painting Set Free is the first exhibition devoted to the extraordinary work J.M.W. Turner created between 1835 and his death in 1851. Seen on the underground, on buses and outside Tate, this poster has been designed by Tate Design Studio to accompany the exhibition at Tate Britain.

• Artist JMW Turner
• Artwork Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) - the Morning after the Deluge - Moses Writing the Book of Genesis
• Exhibition The EY Exhibition: Late Turner - Painting Set Free
• Image size 79 x 79cm
• Material Oil on canvas
• Date of work 1843
• Credit Original: Oil on canvas 79 x 79 cm Tate. Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856. Poster designed by Tate Design Studio.

Joseph Mallord William turner was born in London; he remained a Londoner and kept a Cockney accent all his life despite dominating British landscape painting throughout the first half of the 19th century. He established a reputation in the Royal Academy, first as a topographical watercolourist and then within a few years as a painter of sublime and historical landscapes. From the mid-1790s he settled on the routine he maintained for much of his life: touring in summer and working in the studio in the winter months. He opened his own gallery and had many patrons and admirers as well as detractors. After his death a large body of his works in oil and watercolour was given to the British nation, with many on show at Tate Britain.